As we pack our bags and head home from Cancun and a simply excellent Padel Mundial 2010, we should pay our respects to our hosts and Mexican Padel Federation Jose Luis Frapoli in particular. A wonderful advertisement for the increasingly global game of padel with 14 competing nations and 28 teams (there were 11 nations [...]
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Both UK Teams Finish 11th Place – Well Done!
The final day of competition at the Mundial in Mexico 2010 brought us more success and reason to celebrate albeit that we do feel we could and possibly should have done better. Your ‘correspondent’ is typing this report at 5am in the morning having celebrated the achievements of the team together, so please forgive the [...]
BBC News & Padel
BBC News have an article about padel, Matt Thomas and the Mexico 2010 World Padel Championships. Click here to read. We love this coverage!
UK Women V Canada & UK Men v Italy Results
A mild celebration last night at the ‘bikini’ party – German’s looked lovely by the way and there was even time for Matt Thomas to exchange shirts with one of the ‘opposition’ before close of play! Deserving of mention for their performances yesterday are Maryam Adejumo and Oliver Moore who both performed strongly in challenging [...]
Match Report Round 1
On the most important day of the competition we awoke to torrential rain at around 6.30am but within an hour it was bright blue skies again – an omen perhaps! Curiously our hosts had arranged a beach party last night and some of the players wandered down to soak up the atmosphere and relax before [...]
UK Mens Padel Team progress to the next round
We are very proud to announce that today at around 8pm (2am UK time) our mens team overcame the Swiss National Team over 3 matches to progress to the next round of the knockout round of The World Championship in Mexico 2 wins to 1. This represents the first time that any padel team from [...]
Opening Ceremony
In typical latin fashion the ‘Opening Ceremony’ took place at the end of the first days play and even then 2 hours behind schedule! Speeches and introductions were mercifully brief and Jose Luis Frapolli, Mexican Padel Federation President announced the Mundial 2010 open. A meeting of padel federation presidents was scheduled for 10am this morning [...]
Tactics & preparation intensify
Oliver Moore arrived last night sporting a moustache that would have done justice to a re-union of Village People – all in a good cause he assured us and (like magic) it was gone by this morning! Training took on a more technical and tactical edge this morning under German’s watchful eye. The men had [...]
The open games begin
Whether it was a sign of supreme confidence or not I’m not sure but I managed to oversleep this morning and was late, seriously late, for the team breakfast meeting. In these situations best just to smile and keep your head down I think…. An early ‘kick off’ for us in the ‘open’ pairs competition [...]
